In NH anyone can be a ‘poll watcher’ – By Shawne K. Wickham (New Hampshire Sunday News) / Oct 18 2020
In the first presidential debate, President Donald Trump warned about voting fraud in the approaching election, urging supporters “to go into the polls and watch very carefully.” Then last week on Twitter, he exhorted them to “volunteer to be a Trump Election Poll Watcher” and posted a link to armyfortrump.com.
The president’s rhetoric has some voting rights advocates worried about possible voter intimidation on Election Day.
But in New Hampshire, where politics is the favorite sport, poll watching is both legal and encouraged.
“The polling places are public, and voting is a public event, and so anyone who’s interested can go to a polling place and watch the activity that’s going on in the polling place from outside the rail,” David Scanlan, deputy secretary of state, said in a recent interview. The “rail” refers to a barrier that blocks off the place where the ballots are handed to voters and where voting booths and ballot boxes or optical scanners are located.
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